Italian large-scale retail trade wine sales in September: report and analysis

A not particularly brilliant third quarter in large-scale distribution. Compared to June, the data for sparkling wines improves, which thanks to the driving force of the summer is close to 5% in volume, while the data for still and sparkling wines worsens, which fall to -3%, for a general total still in deficit, at -2 %. The cumulative figure since January is therefore still in the red zone, at -3.4% (5.4 million hectolitres), of which 0.6% for sparkling wines and -4% for still and sparkling wines.

At a price level, the inflationary push seems to have taken a break: 6.1%, equivalent to one point less than in June, which had already fallen by another point compared to March, with the decisive contribution this time of sparkling, which between one quarter and the next they leave a net 3 points on the field, at 3.6%.